Business Psychology - I

Paper Code: 
PSY 313
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO61: Explain major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical trends in relevant areas of management and psychology.

CO62: Understand and apply the individual, team and organizational mechanisms

CO63: Identify characteristics that affect the primary outcomes of organizational behaviour.

CO64: Differentiate theoretical and empirical frameworks that have defined and shaped these fields through selection, training and evaluation of employees in various work settings.

CO65:Describe and Differentiate the Various Selection Procedure, Their Strength and weaknesses..

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

9.00
Unit I: 
History

Historical Background of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Scope of Industrial Psychology

9.00
Unit II: 
The Workplace

Time and Motion Study

9.00
Unit III: 
Selection

Principles and Techniques

9.00
Unit IV: 
Training

Importance, Kinds of Training, Steps in Training Programme Improving Effectiveness of Training

9.00
Unit V: 
Job Analysis and Job Evaluation

Definitions, Uses and Methods; Organizational Structure: Theory: X,Y,Z; Structure - Tall and Flat.

Essential Readings: 
  • Luthans, F. (1998). Organizational Behavior (8th Edition). Irwin. McGraw Hill.
  • Schultz D.P. and Schultz, S.E. (1998). Psychology and Industry Today: An Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology (6th Edition). NY: Mac Millen.
References: 

Suggested Readings

  • Gann, D. M., & Dodgson, M. (2018). The Playful Entrepreneur: How to Adapt and Thrive in Uncertain Times. Yale University Press. EISBN: 978-0-30024-068-9. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv6hp30m
  • Hollway, W. (1991). Work Psychology and Organizational Behavior: Managing the Individual at work. New Delhi: Sage.
  • Khandwalla, P. N. (1994). Designing Organizational Effectiveness. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill.
  • Muchinksy, P. M. 1997). Psychology Applied to Work: An Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology. California:  Brooks Cole.
  • Neufeld, E. P. (1969). A Global Corporation: A History of the International Development of Massey-Ferguson Limited. University of Toronto Press. EISBN: 978-1-48758-613-3. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv5j03qh
  • Rao, T.V. (1990). Human Resource Development. New Delhi: U.B.S.
  • Robbins, S. P. (1980). Organizational Behavior: Concepts, Controversies and applications. New Delhi: Prentice Hall.
  • Vroom, V. H., & Yetton, P. W. (1973). Leadership and Decision-Making. University of Pittsburgh Press. EISBN: 978-0-82297-414-7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wrc8r.
  • Ward, D. (2010). A New Brand of Business. Temple University Press. EISBN: 978-1-43990-017-8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt14bt4qg

E Resources

  • ResearchGate
  • JSTOR
  • Proquest
  • Shodhganga
  • Delnet
  • Google Scholar
  • National Digital Library (NPTEL)
  • Academia

Journals

  • Enriching Higher Education Students' Learning through Post-work Placement Interventions
  • History of Psychology
  • Journal of personality
  • Psychology of Leaders and Leadership

 

Academic Year: 
2022-23
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